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Cushion.

No. 243,228. Patented June 21,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WVILLIAM T. DOREMUS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CUSHION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,228, dated June 21, 1881.

Application filed May 21, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. DoREMUs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain useful Improvements in Cushions, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvement, part of the case being removed. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to prevent the displacement and the packing of the stuffing in cushions for beds,lounges, chairs, and other articles of furniture.

The invention consists of a cushion made of two or more small elastic parallel rolls connected along their adjacent sides, whereby the elastic material forming the stuffing is kept from being displaced and becoming packed, as will be hereinafter fully described.

The cushion is formed of two or more small parallel rolls, A, connected together along their adjacent sides. For ordinary purposes I prefer to use three rolls, A; but two rolls or six rolls can he used, if desired, without departing from my invention. The several rolls A can be formed of a continuous piece of ticking, 13, sewed together to form compartments to receive the stufling G; or the rolls can be formed of separate pieces of ticking sewed together, as may be desired or convenient. The several rolls A are designed to be stuffed with difi'erent substances-as, for instance, one roll can be stuffed with hair, another with feathers, and another with cotton, or the stuii ing can be formed of other suitable substances, or the rolls A can all be stuifed with the same (N0 model.)

material, a different quantity being packed into each roll, so as to make the several rolls of a different hardness. With this construction the user can adjust the cushion to have a harder or a softer support for his head, as may be desired; or, when the roll upon which the head rests becomes warm, the user can turn the cushion and use another roll, the pe culiar construction of the said cushion preventing the heat from being communicated from one roll to another to any noticeable ex tent. Another advantage of this construction is, that the stutiing, being more confined, will not be liable to be pushed out of place or packed by the pressure of the head, as is the case with ordinary pillows, but will be kept beneath the head.

The cushion thus constructed can be used upon abed,lounge, orcot, or upon an easy-chair, a reclining-chair, a barbers chair, or in any other desired place.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. A cushion made, substantially as herein shown and described, of two or more small parallel elastic rolls connected along their adjacent sides, as set forth.

2. In a cushion, the combination of two or more separate elastic rolls, A, connected along their adjacent sides, substantially as herein. shown and described, whereby the elastic stuffing is kept from displacement or becoming packed, as set forth.

WILLIAM T. DOREMUS.

\Vitnesses JAMES T. GRAHAM, O. SEDGWIcK. 

